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SIOR Announces
Winners of Its First Achievement Awards
The St. Louis Chapter of the Society of Industrial and Office
Realtors® (SIOR) celebrated its first awards and charity gala
recognizing four local companies for outstanding achievement in
the local commercial real estate industry. The SIOR awards honor
companies and projects that improve the surrounding neighborhood,
increase economic development in the metropolitan area and make
significantly higher and better use of an existing site.
Lender of the Year, Southwest Bank, earned the recognition for
the overall manner in which it conducts business, commitment to
the real estate community and helping facilitate economic growth
through its lending process.
Balke
Brown Associates won the Development
Team of the Year award for a project over $6
million for the HIghlands, the first office park
inside the City of St. Louis. |
Development Team of a Project Over $6 Million went to Balke Brown
Associates for their work on The Highlands located on the former
Arena site across Highway 40 from Forest Park. This first office
park inside the City of St. Louis will include seven buildings
when completed. Tenants moved into the first building at the end
of 2000.
Flatness,
Lutz and Associates, LLC's
renovation of the Hamilton Brown Shoe
Factory earned the company the Development
Team of the Year award for a project under
$6 million. |
Development Team of the Year for a Project Under $6 Million was
Flatness, Lutz and Associates, LLC. The team, which included The
Lawrence Group (architect), Allegiant Bank (lender), and Paric
Corp. (general contractor), earned its award for refurbishing
the Hamilton Brown Shoe Factory on the corner of Olive and 21st
streets.
Johnson
Group, TCN, received Transaction
of the Year honors for the GPX headquarters
and distribution center to be built in the Cass
Avenue
redevelopment area. |
Transaction of the Year went to Johnson Group, TCN, for the GPX
headquarters building, which will be located on the former site
of Lambert Pharmaceutical in the Cass Avenue redevelopment area
of St. Louis.
HOK-designed Lincoln Library and Museum Breaks Ground
HOK designed
the Abraham Lincoln Presidential
Library and musuem located in Springfield, ILL.
scheduled for completion October 2002. |
Te new Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum, designed
by HOK (Hellmuth, Obata + Kassabaum) Inc., is now under construction.
The groundbreaking ceremony took place on February 12, what would
have been the former president’s 192nd birthday. The facility,
to be located in downtown Springfield, Ill., replaces the existing
library currently housed in the basement of the Old State Capitol
building.
Goals for the library and museum focused on creating a comprehensive
public experience featuring the life of Abraham Lincoln. Critical
to the project was the location of an appropriate site within
the downtown area. A two-block area at the intersection of Sixth
Street and Jefferson Avenue was selected for its direct access
into Springfield. In addition, the campus will include the historic
Union Station, which will serve as a gateway to the Library and
Museum as well as other Lincoln-related sites throughout Illinois
and the country.
The 99,600-square-foot library, which will be built first, will
serve as the archival facility to preserve and protect the collection
of books and documents on the legend of Lincoln. The design, led
by Obata, strives to rectify functional inefficiencies of the
existing library while creating a landmark respectful of the city’s
urban fabric.
Scheduled completion for the library is October 2002. HOK is responsible
for site selection and master planning, facility programming,
design and implementation. HOK Project Designer Meera Jain collaborated
with Obata on the architectural design. Other St. Louis members
of the library team include CCI, code consultant and fire protection
and Kiku Obata & Company, graphic design.
The museum, scheduled to begin construction later this year, provides
an interactive environment in which to learn and experience Lincoln
and the events throughout his life. An exhibit called The Journey
takes the visitor through the Pre-Presidential Years, the White
House and the War, and Death and Legacy. A children’s exhibit
includes an area with costumes where younger visitors can sample
the attire of the period.
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